District Governor Visit

District Governor, Rodney Adams, visited with Board members of the Rotary Club of Cary-Grove on Wednesday evening at the Onion Pub located at 22221 N Pepper Road, Lake Barrington.  The members that were present participated in a discussion of the strengths and challenges of the club as well as what they would like to accomplish over the next year.  On Thursday morning, he met with the entire membership and had the pleasure of installing new member, Erin Hauck.

 

In addition to installing the club's newest member, he discussed the progress that Rotarians world-wide are making toward the eradication of polio.  This effort began as a pilot project in the Philippines back in 1979.  Since 1985, the eradication of polio has been Rotary's flagship project.  At that time, polio paralyzed more than 350,000 children per year in 125 countries, more than 1,000 per day.  Since then, the number of polio cases has been reduced by 99.9%, with less than 50 cases being reported in the two remaining countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

 

Governor Adams encouraged all present to participate in an update report highlighting the progress against polio that will take place on Friday, October 23rd.  That event will be streamed live at 6:30 PM EDT.  In addition to Rotarians, he expressed gratitude to the partnering organizations that are helping to make this possible; the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.